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		<title>&#8220;Zuma mocks institution of polygamy&#8221;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte Bauer has written a brilliant column in this week&#8217;s Mail and Guardian. Wise and considered thoughts on our polygamous president. 



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		<title>Spud&#8217;s big movie break</title>
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Looking forward to another South African movie hitting the big screens soon? The book that I didn&#8217;t much like but that so many of you did, will become Spud The Movie! And it will most likely join the latest string of South African-linked film successes like District 9 and Invictus which have been nominated for [...]


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		<title>Giacometti sold for R778 064 962,00</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This sculpture sold for 65million pounds which is R778 064 962,00. That&#8217;s a lot. Sapa reported last night that Alberto Giacometti&#8217;s sculpture &#8220;L&#8217;Homme qui marche I&#8221; in London on Wednesday, a world record for an art work at auction, said auctioneers Sotheby&#8217;s. The high price made it &#8220;the most expensive art work ever sold at [...]


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		<link>http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/minor/2010/02/04/giacometti-sold-for-r778-064-96200/</link>
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		<title>Toddler training for politicians.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gina Ford who some call a nursery fascist, has decided to take on British politicians. Her Contented Baby website asks of the British political party leaders: &#8220;Which one of these men would you trust with your child&#8217;s future?&#8221;.  
The Contented Politician is not such a bad idea perhaps. Those Westminster guys could do with [...]


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		<link>http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/minor/2010/02/03/gina-ford-takes-on-politicians/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Zuma fails the cultural test&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nomboniso Gasa writes today in the Sowetan that &#8220;We are a constitutional democracy that protects cultural freedoms of all, including those of the president. But the choices of the President of the Republic concern all of us&#8221;
She argues that &#8220;according to the cultural milieu, to which Malema refers, leadership is earned every day. Ukuzeyisa nobungcathu [...]


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		<link>http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/minor/2010/02/03/zuma-fails-the-cultural-test/</link>
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		<title>Max Normal&#8217;s Die Antwoord.</title>
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Yirre. Watch what Max Normal is up to with Yo-Landi Vi$$er and Jack Parow: an Afrikaans futuristic ninja rap crew. Die Antwoord is pretty uncomfortable stuff but damn excellent. Love it. 


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		<link>http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/minor/2010/02/03/max-normals-die-antwoord/</link>
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		<title>Eddie Izzard cracks up SA crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was there. Eddie Izzard&#8217;s first show at the Joburg Civic was absolutely jam packed with incredibly enthusiastic South Africans. I was a little sceptical. I&#8217;ve been to a number of international comic acts here. And most of these great comedians I&#8217;ve seen don&#8217;t work on us. But Eddie did and he is a genius [...]


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		<link>http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/minor/2010/02/03/eddie-izzard-cracks-up-sa-crowd/</link>
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		<title>FW de Klerk&#8217;s speech and the young Afrikaner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FW de Klerk explains in a piece written for The Times why he made his historic speech today twenty years ago, rather than earlier.  What set the stage for the rapid changes that followed this day &#8211; this after many years and years of struggle. 
Remember, remember that day. I was no longer a [...]


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		<link>http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/minor/2010/02/02/fw-de-klerks-speech-and-the-young-afrikaner/</link>
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		<title>Tuckshop snub.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’VE been snubbed like never before. I did my first tuck shop shift on Friday.
Last year my daughter nagged me repeatedly: “Mummy, why don’t you do tuck shop like all the other mums?”
So, on the list of resolutions I made this year, I reluctantly added “Do tuck shop”. I wasn’t welcoming adding another duty to [...]


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		<title>Mr President.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You seem busy. But very busy with the wrong activities.
I hope you find the time to do the work we desperately need you to do.
It&#8217;s none of my business, I know, but you don&#8217;t seem to be condomising. Isn&#8217;t this a problem?  
Today&#8217;s Sunday Times reveals that our President Mr Jacob Zuma has fathered [...]


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